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Monday, September 11, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 9, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Msgr. Johannes Harmannes Jozefus Van den Hende, vicar general of the diocese of Groningen, Netherlands, as coadjutor bishop of Breda (area 3,368, population 1,103,150, Catholics 476,169, priests 280, permanent deacons 18, religious 1,353), Netherlands. The bishop-elect was born in Groningen, in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1991.

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, presented by Bishop Joseph Faber MacDonald, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
NEC:RE/.../VAN DEN HENDE:MACDONALD                VIS 20060911 (110)

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